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Most prized for art, and labour'd<br />

o'er with gold,<br />

Before the goddess' honour'd knees<br />

be spread,<br />

And twelve young heifers to her altar<br />

led.<br />

So may the power, atoned by fervent<br />

prayer,<br />

Our wives, our infants, and our city<br />

spare;<br />

And far avert Tydides' wasteful ire,<br />

Who mows whole troops, and<br />

makes all Troy retire.<br />

Be this, O mother, your religious<br />

care:<br />

I go to rouse s<strong>of</strong>t Paris to the war;<br />

If yet not lost to all the sense <strong>of</strong><br />

shame,<br />

<strong>The</strong> recreant warrior hear the voice<br />

<strong>of</strong> fame.<br />

Oh, would kind earth the hateful<br />

wretch embrace,

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